Actually, what is "a grocery"? Why do y'all call a store that sells food a "grocery store"?
@vaporeon_ groceries is a term that fur whatever reason i think i have only ever heard in the plural. but anyway groceries are basically just your food and drink
@aescling Can you tell me the etymology of that word?
@vaporeon_ this was a bit frustrating to track down but what i can tell it's
grocery, from middle english grocerye, an adjectivalization of grocer (wholesaler, one who mans a grocery (that is, a grocery store)), from anglo-norman grōcer, from old french gros (large, thick, fat— modern english gets the sense of “gross” that means large from this word), from latin grossus
@vaporeon_ so i guess etymologically, a grocery store is roughly “a store you get a bunch of shit at once from”
@vaporeon_ but in common usage that normally means “store where you buy purrimarily food and maybe also other useful things”